Matriarchal playthrough?

[I'm here for you friend]

Hey I was wondering if there's any culture or religion that allows you to play with succession laws that favour women? I've been doing a germanic pagan playthrough and it's kind of a sausage fest so I thought I'd do something more interesting on the side like set up a matriarchal kingdom. Any help would be awesome.

[Jocke]

No, there is no succession law that favors women. Absolute cognatic let them inherit on the same grounds as men though. However, I believe that only cathars can have that form of succession.

I'm not sure, but I don't think you can start as a cathar, you either have to change your religion via console or just hope for huge damn luck in order to get the opportunity to convert.

[I'm here for you friend]

Okay thanks for the advice

[Muscle Wizzard]

You could always get the "better gender laws mod" if you don't mind modding your game, there's also the "return of the amazons".

[Surimi]

Enatic and enatic-cognatic (female preference) succession exists in the game, but simply aren't enabled. To change if very simply without potentially running into outdated mods, go into your CK2/decisions folder (or better still create a personal mod file so you aren't altering game assets) and scroll down to the bottom and change both instances of "potential = { always = no" to "potential = { always = yes". Or you could add whatever conditions you wanted, like "religion = norse_pagan_reformed".

CK2 is actually a very easy to mod like that.